[360] Xbox 360 Hacked

Okay, this thread is two months old, but I had to revive it to say a couple things...
First of all, check out team xecuter's website (www.team-xecuter.com) for the latest and greatest updates on the 360 modding process. Clearly, it's become easy and streamlined, and they're getting around all sorts of official firmware updates because of their plug-and-play mod capability. Superfantastic.
Secondly, I laugh at everyone who complains about not being able to use Xbox Live, since I almost never enjoyed being on Live anyway, and being a part of the mod community, can play on X-link Kai for FREE.
Which means I laugh even harder at those idiots over at M$ because all they're doing is taking money away from themselves. Why not let modded Xbox users play on Live? Employ something like punkbuster so people can't play when they've modified the game so that they have an unfair advantage. You totally lost your few dollars a month from me, Mircostuft. I hope it hurts your billionaire industry.

EDIT: Also, come on, seriously... I'm not going to say I've never pirated anything, but more recently I modded my PS2 for the express purpose of playing backups of games I legally own, because the discs are becoming more and more damaged. A 360, with games at the prices they're at, is likely to be modded for much the same reason.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by DELTASABER

People would have taken you seriously up until you said "M$". Now you're a joke.

Dollar-sign is offensive to Canadians? uh-oh.

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But, considering that Live has more users, and therefore more competition than the free variants, it's pretty obvious that by that alone, it's the superior service. If you're using something else, and you're not on Live, you won't be able to download whatever game patches, or extra game content arrives until someone gets it to you a different way.

More users, yes. More does not always equal better. I've found far fewer asshats on Kai than I have on Live. I've also gotten patches, content, etc just as quickly, if not MORE quickly, through my er... "questionable sources" as compared to Live. Happens to be the same way I got the US release of Final Fantasy XII two and a half weeks before it came out. In other words, I find just as diverse a player base - excluding the asshats - with many many different opponents, and I get even more content, more soonererer.

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Live is, and will remain to be for a long time, the best reason to own an Xbox. If you didn't enjoy it, I guess that's fine. But if you think some other, free alternative with a fraction of the userbase and support is just as good, I've got to laugh at you.

Actually, I find the best reason to own an Xbox is LAN games with your 1-to-31 best buds. Other than that, I like being able to use it as a console-turned-media-center, with all my music, movies, and games right there on the hard drive. I used to think Live was the best reason. Then I got sick of Live, and found a way that I liked better. Same good experience (with extras) and none of the crap. Yum.

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Lastly, this bit about playing backups always gets me. What the FUCK do you people do? Shit on your discs? Go over them with pennies? Let the dog eat them? How hard is it to take care of what your purchase? Put the damn things back in the case and unless you proceed to step on it, it'll be fine.

It's never been to misuse or carelessness on my part. No, it's always been the dumbasses who were either my friends or related to me that thought it would be superfantastic to shit pennies on the discs and let the dog eat it, or whatever you said (too lazy to read again) and then put it in their console and ruin both my game and their system.
"Pay for me my game"
"NO IT RUIN MY XCUBE"
"Ya bcuz u ruin my game"
"IT RUIN MY GAMEBOXSTATION"
"F U nub."
"U pay for me my halobox"
"GTFO"

I need a safe to put my games in, basically.

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Originally Posted by DELTASABER

I should rephrase. Using M$ around here is greatly frowned upon and people have a tendancy to not take the post seriously as soon as they read that. It does nothing but make your post look juvinile and stupid.

Incredible... most other places everyone found it hilarious. I suppose that explains the lack of usage here. I will keep that in mind.

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Leaks of final games on bittorrent isn't exactly the same as, say, the latest patch for Splinter Cell or something, which is released straight onto Live. Slightly different there. The Live alternatives will have most of the content soon enough, which is true. And some other leaked stuff will hit sooner, also true. I guess for the most part that evens out.

Yeah, basically it all evens out. Over half the stuff on Live is patches for the multiplayer aspect anyway, and a lot of those patched issues have to do with Live itself, amusingly. But I will agree there is some stuff I have to wait a bit longer to get... but I'm fine with that.

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It's not always easy to get together large groups of people, especialyl if youre friends all have steady jobs/go to school/whatnot, so I dunno about how often you can pull that off. Fun, sure, but huge LANs are not an often enough occurance in my group to make it worth the price of admission here. I also find that other devices, like a cheap PC, can operate as a much better media center than an Xbox can. Whereas I can have any small computer be a media center, not everything can access Live, which is what the Xbox was designed for really, and why I bought it in the first place.

It's been surprisingly easy for me to get groups together, but I know that's not always the case so it's not really a strong arguing point. It's just the best reason to me to own an Xbox. As for the media center stuff, it's true that by itself, an Xbox isn't exactly the best media center - not even the 360, though it was designed to incorporate seamlessly with say, a media center PC. But my Xbox as it is currently works very well as a media center, especially since I updated it with Xbox Media Center as an "operating system." Works even better than my Media Center PC actually

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You need to severly injure your friends on a more regular basis.

Agreed. Though mostly my relatives are to blame. Thankfully I don't live with them anymore.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.